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2022 12 14

All the league news fit to print and then some! Compiled from across FUMBBL, this is all the league news that's come to my little furry ears. If you know more that is going on, please let razmus know so he can add it to the next edition, which should be the last week of December. The census says that there are 795 distinct coaches on FUMBBL who play in leagues. Two numbers are given which the range of the league size, because there isn't a single good indicator of the league size. When the numbers are very different - the league may be in flux, have some deadwood teams/coaches in their locker rooms, or at the start or end of a cycle. Numbers very close together should be pretty close to the actual census for the group. The following leagues should have space/recruiting right now: Chill Axe (UK), MBBL (France/French), Secret Resurrection (Global), and Spelledaren’s next big thing (Global)(two slots left)

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Timezone/Region	World, but focused on Coaches new to Bloodbowl or new to Fumbbl	✶ 33-40
Rules	BB2020
Current status	PIE Holiday Season is running and now has no filler teams. Thirty-two of the fourty teams are bloodied. The current tournament will end on 26 December.
Next steps	If you're new to Blood Bowl or new to FUMBBL, this is the group to help you get oriented! Join the discord, join the tournament. The 'Special Snowflake' tournament will begin 29 December.
To contact	razmus's blog for more info, and 145 Club Discord

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Timezone/Region	Europe	★ 16-17
Rules	BB2020, divisions with promotion/relegation
Current status	Hubba Season 3 round two/three.
Next steps	Another Playoff/Cup -- in late February early March 2023
To contact	Contact eldritchfox for more information and join them on the HUBBA Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Europe but with coaches from everywhere. Large, fluff heavy league.	✹ 76-77
Rules	BB2020 with modified Secret League, and customized BB2016 skill progression. Only one team per roster.
Current status	Year 10, tenth anniversary SUMMER Tournaments, round one complete.
Next steps	Year 10, Autumn tournaments by prestige.
To contact	New teams either enter a Youngbloods tournament or the general mix depending on timing, and with a league this large they're almost always recruiting. Contact C0ddlefish and/or join them on the SL Discord in their own section. (If you were considering joining CIBBL, now is a good time, because hopefully they could still get enough for another Youngbloods tournament.)

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Timezone/Region	UK, with ten day rounds	★ 11-13
Rules	BB2020, but someone has to wield the axe...
Current status	Season 3 playoff finals.
Next steps	Season 4.
To contact	MisterA , and check out their discord. If you were considering playing in the Chill Axe, this is a good time to start communication, because they'll likely be recruiting soon.

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Timezone/Region	Italian Language/Italy	✹ 56-81
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 31 playoffs are complete (11 Dec)!
Next steps	Season 32.
To contact	Ale_Kubbo

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Timezone/Region	German Language/Central Europe TZ	✶ 32-32
Rules	BB2020, with building and league modes
Current status	Season 14 has two rounds remaining.
Next steps	Season 14 Playoffs
To contact	jurisch and join them on Discord.

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Timezone/Region	French Language/France	✶ 32-32
Rules	Secret League 2020, with customizations - now also with custom star players!
Current status	Season 4 playoff tournaments second round winding up.
Next steps	Recruiting and Season 5! (As Diablange has said, new coaches/teams could have joined earlier to participate in the lower cup, but I'm sure it's not to late to jump into season 5.)
To contact	Contact Diablange for more information and join them on their Discord (ask Diablange for a invitation if interested).

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Timezone/Region	UK	✷ 41-41
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 65 has passed the midway point.
Next steps	Promotion/relegations and recruiting -- likely mid to late January.
To contact	A whole host of active commissioners to contact on the group page, or talk to them on the WIL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	French Language/Europe TZ	✷ 47-47
Rules	BB2020, with promotion and relegation, and roster rotation. (It appears that teams can be relegated right out of existence.)
Current status	Season 30 is in the last round. End of season playoffs are up, and teams slotted in as they finish their regular season.
Next steps	Season 30 playoffs.
To contact	Sharkrudi, Thoriin, Darkvatar, or Phags or visit their Discord

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Timezone/Region	Europe, with two week rounds.	✶ 25-25
Rules	BB2020 limited to a single team per roster. Invitational. With FLUFF!
Current status	Season Two is very nearly complete. (It'd be done, but you know how hard it is to get orcs and halflings to the same field?)
Next steps	Season Two Classic Bowl and Mud Cup to start in the later half of December.
To contact	See Lasgalen, datom, or det about an invitation. Looks to be some openings.

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Timezone/Region	Europe	✶ 34-36
Rules	BB2020 rules with BB2016 skill progression, w/player drafts. Limited to 32 Team Franchises. With FLUFF!
Current status	The third part of Season 13 has begun.
Next steps	Season 13 Playoffs.
To contact	BigF is in charge of the waitlist.

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Timezone/Region	Europe	★ 9-9
Rules	BB2020 with several house rules and drafting. Two week rounds.
Current status	Season 6 is has finished round six.
Next steps	Playoffs (mid-January), then draft (mid-February) to prepare for Season 7.
To contact	Contact Hovring for more information and join.

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Timezone/Region	Europe/Ukraine (Ukrainian Coaches)	★ 13-14
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Rookie Bowl 6 has had a slew of games, and Trident Bowl 3 has stalled in round three.
Next steps	Season 4.
To contact	Contact Ulmar99 for more information and join. Ulmar99 is also looking for coaches for an Eastern Europe League.

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Nuffle's Will League - League for people with strong nerves
Timezone/Region	Europe/Poland (Polish Language)	★ 15-15
Rules	BB2020, with several house rules to accept Nuffle's Will.
Current status	Season 2, sprinting towards completion, with about a round and a half remaining.
Next steps	Playoffs.
To contact	Contact Avreus or Jaskier for more information and join.

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Liga Snota w Worku (Snot League in the Bag)
Timezone/Region	Europe/Poland (Polish Language)	★ 8-16
Rules	SL2020, Randomly assigned SL20 rosters.
Current status	Season 3 has begun.
Next steps	Season 3 playoffs.
To contact	Contact Avreus for more information and join.

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Timezone/Region	Europe (Spanish Language), but some non-European	✶ 36-36
Rules	BB2020.
Current status	First Season in two divisions, Round 9 of 17.
Next steps	Playoffs in May
To contact	Contact MrToyce for more information and join.

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Timezone/Region	Europe maybe, please don't let the goblins across the pond.	✶ 22-27
Rules	BB2020, with custom goblin themed rosters. With rulz (HA!) written by and for goblins.
Current status	They've started World Waaagh III tournament (I knew they'd be responsible), and The XXL Badland Brawl is still going on. And now there's been a flurry of goblins with peg legs and parrots on their shoulders in the locker rooms.
Next steps	Nuffle only knows, and she ain't talking. I'm certain there will be more opportunities to crush, smash, and spindle a few more gobbos. (Contact mekutata for more information about what they have planned next! I'm afraid if I ask, I'll get some of it on me.)
To contact	mekutata apparently translates goblin and might be able to help you.

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Timezone/Region	Mainly Europe but Coaches in North and South America, Canada too. 14 day turns!	★ 20-20
Rules	BB20 Draft League, Human rosters, custom seasons and re-draft. Custom Icons and Team logo's.
Current status	Season 2, cross region competition is into round 3 of 9.
Next steps	Championship and Jesters Cup playoffs.
To contact	The_Murker (Owner), det, darkwing2k6, and misterlonestar

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Timezone/Region	Europe and Americas	✶ 23-24
Rules	BB2020, with random players and lots and lots of extra dice rolling just to satisfy Nuffle's whims
Current status	The first half of Season 2 is into it's last round.
Next steps	The second half of Season 2 in January, in which more dice will be rolled in honour of Nuffle. End of season should be in March/April.
To contact	Foremole on site NUFFLE League Discord channel to roll up your random team. They're always recruiting new teams, and can run new blood type tournaments when there is enough new blood to justify.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	✶ 31-31
Rules	BB2020 with player draft, drawn from NCBB amongst other places
Current status	NFC and AFC Playoffs have four big games remaining.
Next steps	Super Bowl XXIX. Start planning your watch party. (I'm leaning towards Szeattle to take home rings this season.)
To contact	To be put on the waiting list for an invitation, contact Bazakastine or dashergeaux and join them on the NBFL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	✷ 42-46
Rules	BB2020, with custom seasons
Current status	Season 41 is underway. Out-of-conference play for the non-rookie teams. BCS out of conference play is very nearly at it's deadline.
Next steps	Season 41 is locked in for a while... in-conference play for the experienced teams next
To contact	ex-convict or Nelphine on site, or NCBB Discord

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	Timezone/Region	Americas	✶ 33-37
	Rules	BB2020
	Current status	Season 3 EFL Cup and The FA Trophy tournaments have begun.
	Next steps	Inexplicably, the FA Cup is next, then probably a drunken brawl.
	To contact	Waagh and ryanfitz on site or the NWBL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Americas	★ 16-19
Rules	SL2020 (Secret League 2020)
Current status	Season 3 is in round five. Norsii Iron Wolves currently hold the Mystic Sparkle-Slann of Huah-Huah.
Next steps	Once the season finishes in early March, playoffs.
To contact	razmus on site, or SLA20 channel on the Secret League Discord.

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Timezone/Region	Chilean, Americas timezone, Spanish Language	✶ 21-21
Rules	BB2020/BB2020 Resurrection/BB2020 Stunty (League moves between groups/ruleset thru the year)
Current status	Watching to see what's next.
Next steps	Stunty League phase, I believe
To contact	Varadal, primary communication via WhatsApp.

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Timezone/Region	Ontario, Canada & Time Zone friends	✶ 20-21
Rules	BB2020, roughly weekly rounds
Current status	Season 6 is in round 17-18 of 19 rounds.
Next steps	"Playoofs".
To contact	Hammer16 or grant85 on site.

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Timezone/Region	Oceania (GMT +7 to +12)	✷ 53-60
Rules	BB2020
Current status	Season 94 is into the last few rounds.
Next steps	Draft and regionals planned, then another Trial of Blood, at towards the end of December.
To contact	Talk to Wozzaa about getting started or join them on the SWL Discord and 'ask to be drafted and hazed.' New teams need a little time to draft and get 'some blooding games' played before they're fed to the le... err... before they start.

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	Timezone/Region	New Zealand/Australian time zone preference With a bit of a lean towards NZ	✶ 20-22
	Rules	SL2020, each roster can only be represented once, with two week rounds.
	Current status	The Sucker's Cup is up to the finals. They also have a Tilea only, "Silkys Stocking Pick and Mix party" going on.
	Next steps	Season 10
	To contact	PM Trickey on FUMBBL or get in touch on their channel on the DIBBL Discord.

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Timezone/Region	New Zealand, one week rounds	Established 6th March 2015	✶ 18-23
Rules	BB2020. Equivalent pools with tiered postseason playoffs to decide champion. No redrafting or TV caps. Expensive mistakes and Spiraling expenses both active. Older players may pickup a niggle between seasons (aging)
Current status	Two remaining playoff tournaments are up to their finals!
Next steps	Season 32. If you're in the target audience -- now would be a good time to get in touch with ramchop to play next season!
To contact	Contact ramchop or jump into DIBBL discord.

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Timezone/Region	Global	★ 0-15
Rules	BB2016 with individual customized rosters, limited franchises, seasons, and lots of house rules.
Current status	Year 2 Summer; KO Competition - Top Tier Cup appears to have stalled.
Next steps	Year 2 Autumn - Ranked League.
To contact	Contact cowhead. They occasionally search for a replacement coach when someone drops, but again, there are limited franchise teams.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 21 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	★ 7-9
Rules	BB2016: experienced, orphaned teams -- Will now be importing teams into the league, as the BB2016 open environment has been declared dead.
Current status	Season 10 playoffs, with finals deadline in mid January, although even that could get pushed back further!
Next steps	If there's sufficient interest to play old teams, Season 11. Now wouldn't be a bad time to start talking to razmus about travel to exotic El-Aljana to play. Warm those old players bones in the salty sands!
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMT Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	• 0-0
Rules	BB2020: experienced, orphaned teams
Current status	Season 1 anticipated to start January 1, 2023 We're growing some fine teams in the 145 Club to ship off to the Isle.
Next steps	TBD
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMTNG Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 21 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	★ 6-10
Rules	SL16 Open Environment teams
Current status	Season 7, Round 3/4.
Next steps	Playoffs around the end of January 2023.
To contact	Contact razmus and join the IoMT Discord Channel.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	✺ 150-152
Rules	BB2020 resurrection/non-progression with promotion and relegation
Current status	Season 1 has begun, and all but two teams are bloodied.
Next steps	Shuffling then Season 2!
To contact	Contact TheFear.

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Timezone/Region	Global, 14 day rounds to facilitate cross tz scheduling	✦ 6-7
Rules	SL2020 resurrection/non-progression, with some additional rosters and customization.
Current status	Quiet... looks to be between seasons.
Next steps	Probably more (Season 5) bloodshed.
To contact	Contact Java.

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Timezone/Region	Global, some schedule... Nuffle isn't picky	✦ 6-6
Rules	BB2020 with a single custom Nuffle roster, no retirements, no stars, no outside games, spiked balls.
Current status	Season 1, Round 3 (stalled).
Next steps	Season 1 Catacombs Cup knockout tournament.
To contact	Contact Happy_Amateur.

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“Spelledaren’s next big thing”
Timezone/Region	Global, open round robin+playoffs	★ 6-9
Rules	BB2020 with "some minor tweaks"
Current status	Season 1, with a couple open slots remaining, and a few unbloodied teams!
Next steps	More bloodshed, I mean... a playoff for the top teams.
To contact	Contact spelledaren.

Open Play Environments

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Rules	BB2020 with custom rosters. Updates to the rosters are anticipated.
Activity	Low activity, but with bated breath we anticipate Garion's release of the new rosters this month.
To play	Make a team from the group above and put them in Gamefinder or seek games on the Secret League Discord
Activities	Old World Rookie Rumble for new teams... starting to push again -- STILL need a few more teams for the next Rumble. Old World Brawl for any team... and again, while activity is slow, tournaments will still happen. [SL]2020 Slam are Slam type instant tournaments for groups of four teams. (just needs for interested coaches) Other tournaments to start when Seasons enabled on FUMBBL.

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Rules	BB2016 with custom rosters.
Activity	Very low, and we may need to get out a fork soon.
To play	Make a team from the group above and put them in Gamefinder or seek games on the Secret League Discord
Activities	Secret 2016 [SL]am Series are Slam type instant tournaments for groups of four teams. (just needs four interested coaches) [SL]UMBBL Shield - Minor's like tournament for SL2016 teams. SLUMBBL CUP - Annual all comers tournament. [SL16] Grand Championship Two part tournament run multiple times per year. Secret Stunty Cup Annual Stunty Team tournament. (Recently complete for this year.)

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Rules	BB2016, with imported League, Ranked, or Box teams, including SL16 teams.
Activity	Moderate <- Recruiting for October.
To play	Clone teams into the league to bring new life to them to play.
Activities	O[L]C Classic - No limit KO tournaments O[L]C Open League play - Now between seasons. Open [L]eague Cup - No limit, KO tournament coming up to the FINALS., Official 2016 + [SL16] teams O[L]C 2016 Championship - TV limited, KO tournaments, up to eight(8) official 2016 + [SL16] teams Open [L]eague Challenge 2020 - TV limited, KO tournaments, up to eight(8) official 2020 + [SL20] teams

Active Metagroups
Metagroups play in other open environments, against teams which aren't necessarily part of the metagroup for thier own goals

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Season	Until the end of 2022 -- just a few weeks left folks. Christer has been talking about roster points for next season in Discord!
Environment	Competitive (Blackbox Scheduler only)
Synopsis	FUMBBL's only officially supported metagroup. Build one or more squads of four teams, and amass points by winning and tying after randomly matching other teams.

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Season	December 1-31th
Environment	Any/All
Synopsis	Stunty teams across the FUMBBL-verse attempting to beat, kill and maim everyone else... but mostly kill. Accumulate points for building up the biggest stack of corpses, with dwarves counting double. And of course, being stunties... the bodies accumulately from fouls certainly add to the official tally.

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Season	Nov 1st to Dec 31st
Environment	Competitive, and League (BB2020. SL2020 have been added to the current season. Blackbox only team awards to be added in January as well.)
Synopsis	A reboot of the original E.L.F. group, Elf teams accumulate points for playing (and more for winning) against a variety of different rosters. Additional awards for filling your dance card, and a special award for taking more casualties than anyone else. (One team has completed the cycle in the current season.) (Now with a Discord Channel.)

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	Borg Invasion
	Season	Perpetual
	Environment	Any/All
	Synopsis	Chaos Renegades teams as Borg collective. Start vanilla and play against other teams... and as you kill your opponent's players, you add their unique biological signature to the Borg. It was challenging under the BB2016 rules, and I suspect it's even harder now.